Where jatropha is intercropped with food crops such as in northern Zambia, food security does not tend to be compromised by jatropha expansion. Mature Miombo woodlands, however, are frequently lost to expanding jatropha plantations or displaced food crops, Zambia, June.
Photo by Jeff Walker/CIFOR
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